It took someone five years to write this?
This is just a topical piece from Israel because of Obama’s first trip there.
There’s a phenomenon called ‘Jewish geography’ in which Jews quiz each other and tell stories about how they have some direct or indirect contact with a celebrity or some Jewish stranger.
In this case, 25 Jews in Israel who attended Columbia at the same time as O didn’t have any connection or stories about a future POTUS. Very unusual indeed, although other posts on this thread do have such stories.